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- darkpupa
I agree, but I just wonder if there are three types of people reading these posts:
- Foetus fans, squeeing
- Non-fans, groaning
- JG Thirlwell, glancing nervously at the locks on his door
;)
(Source: princessstomper)
I have screwy eyesight. This is not helping.
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5 celebrities who got famous by being obsessed fanboys
See? Told you I was the right side of nuts. Plus, I do have that “special thanks” credit on Fallout: New Vegas (for helping on the forum) so I guess it worked for me :)
Obsession can be good
From Cracked.com’s 5 Celebrities Who Got Famous for by Being Obsessed Fan Boys
#2. The Geek Who Would Be Doctor WhoStarted Out As:
A young, obsessed Doctor Who fan whose schoolteachers had to tell him to shut up about it.
But Became:
The Doctor.
Recently, Doctor Who won a victory over Star Trek by becoming the longest-running science fiction series ever. Twice as many actors have played the Doctor over its entire run as have played James Bond. All the way back in the ’70s, the role belonged to Tom Baker (the fourth Doctor), and his biggest fan in the universe was a geeky kid named David McDonald.
And McDonald was a megafan to an extent that few men could begin to realize. As a child in school, it was all he ever wrote about, to the point where his teacher had to tell him to stop before she had to fail him. His most treasured possession was the stripy Doctor Who scarf his grandmother knitted him.
But he was a talented kid, even if he channeled all that talent into incessantly ranting about Doctor Who (a teacher still has one of his essays about the Doctor, titled “Intergalactic Overload,” in which McDonald talked about becoming obsessed with the thought of being the Time Lord himself). And where most kids eventually drop their fantasy of growing up to be, say, a Jedi, David McDonald stuck to his guns and joined acting school. Only, because they already had a guy named David McDonald, he changed his name to something that a lot of nerds will find instantly familiar: David Tennant.Tennant worked hard, forging himself a successful career in Shakespearean stage productions, until one day, while recording a radio play, he learned of a project that was being recorded next door: a Doctor Who animation being produced in an attempt to revive the series after a 14-year hiatus. This was Tennant’s big break. He crashed the production and managed somehow to convince the director to give him a small role. Now that his foot was in the door, he was able to audition for the role he was born to play once the series geared up again. And guess what? He lost to Christopher Eccleston.Oh, but they gave Tennant the role a year later, when Eccleston quit. And Tennant went on to be voted the best version of the Doctor ever by fans, which makes sense, because he knew the character better than anyone in the history of the universe. As if that wasn’t a big enough screw you to the realists who mocked his obsession, he also married the daughter of Peter Davison, the fifth Doctor. Because apparently his good fortune just wasn’t implausible enough already.
(via did-nazi-that-coming)
Currently enjoying this “futurist” psychedelic/prog music by Karda Estra
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The REAL reason I mention Foetus so often
(This post was inspired by my latest piece at Collapse Board – a bit about favourite albums – in which, yet again, I mentioned Foetus.)
I give up at 59 … too many distractions. I am trying to count how many records JG Thirlwell has made. I think I’m proving my own point about being obsessive-compulsive. “Tenacious” is the word I usually use; “like a dog with a bone” is the way other people put it, but if you ever needed someone to count the grains of sand in an eggtimer, you’d pick me. Still, I know a lost cause when I see one (does Null/Void count as one album or two EPs?), which is the wafer-thin line between me and the crazy people. So I let go of that particular strand before it becomes another brainworm. You know, like an earworm? An idée fixe, monomania of the day, Moby Dick‘s whale, et cetera. I mean, all Foetus fans are a certain level of bats*** insane – it’s the antithesis of one of those high-frequency garden cat repellers: the music scares off sane people and is catnip to us weirdos.
If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, you might have noticed that I mention JG Thirlwell a lot. Not every post – it’s obvious I have a wide range of tastes and interests – but enough for you to notice. There’s a very good reason for this, and it’s not just because I’m the sort of person who has an in-game coin collection in Morrowind. Nope, it’s for this very, very simple little reason.
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Now we’ve established how to pluralise “octopus”, can we have one for “forum” and “genius”?
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Are you being a douche-canoe?
Don’t be a douche-canoe.
(via darkpupa)
Interesting timing, reading this interview with JG Thirlwell on the same day that my rant about the commodification of music went up on Collapse Board (it’s not my best work, since only one commenter seemed to “get” it). Still, it’s intriguing to note we both feel that music is too often just something people have on in the background rather than ascribing real value to it.
I mean, I mostly listen to music through headphones, often while I’m working, and sometimes that oblique way of listening allows details to seep through that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. On the other hand, when I’ve been listening to Manorexia or Foetus, there have been times when I’ve had to stop what I’m doing, close my eyes, and give it my fullest attention.
It’s an interesting article (the Sensitive Skin piece) that is quite flowery and difficult to read but compelling because of the intense passion of the writer (Dire McCain). It could be because Thirlwell has that effect on people - his fans certainly are devoted! - but mostly because (like Cardiacs) people who love Foetus music do so because they are the most passionate lovers of music in the first place.
(photo by Tony Visconti from above-linked issue of Sensitive Skin magazine)
current song:
foetus - paper slippers
current song:
flesh volcano - bruise & chain
Hand transplant - the tendons, nerves, and vessels of the donor limb are dissected out on a separate table.
WHY I’D LOVE TO, DARLIN’
